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Euro-barometer 37.0: Awareness and Importance of Maastricht and the Future of the European Community, March-April 1992 (ICPSR 9847)

Principal Investigator(s):Reif, Karlheinz; Melich, Anna

Summary:

This round of Euro-Barometer surveys investigated the level
of public support for the European Community (EC) and assessed
attitudes toward European integration. Respondents were asked how well
informed they felt about the EC, how supportive they were of efforts
being made to unify Western Europe, whether their country had benefited
from being an EC member, and how interested they were personally in EC
matters. Other queries focused on respondent reaction to the European
flag, the ... (more info)

This round of Euro-Barometer surveys investigated the level
of public support for the European Community (EC) and assessed
attitudes toward European integration. Respondents were asked how well
informed they felt about the EC, how supportive they were of efforts
being made to unify Western Europe, whether their country had benefited
from being an EC member, and how interested they were personally in EC
matters. Other queries focused on respondent reaction to the European
flag, the feeling of being a citizen of Europe both now and in the
future, opinions relating to the speed of European unification,
impressions of the work of the European Commission, and how well a list
of statements corresponded to the respondent's hopes for the future of
the EC. Respondents also judged which areas of policy should be decided
by national governments and which by a central EC structure, and
expressed their reactions to the Common Agricultural Policy, their
expectations for the Single European Market and whether it should
contain a social dimension, and their attitudes about the role and
importance of the European Parliament. A number of questions focused
specifically on the meeting and treaty produced in the Dutch town of
Maastricht in December 1991. Respondents were queried about their
knowledge of the gathering and its possible effects on the EC, on their
own countries, and on their personal lives. Opinions were also sought
on the desirability and positive and negative effects of certain
countries joining the EC, and what the rights of citizens of other
member countries should be when residing in the respondent's nation.
Attitudes toward immigrants from nonmember countries were elicited as
well. A set of questions focused on environmental problems, ecological
concerns, and the priority assigned to economic development when
assessing these issues. Respondents were asked to identify factors that
caused serious damage to the environment, and to comment on what could
be done to lessen pollution. They were also asked about the role of
public bodies in protecting and informing the public about
environmental concerns, sources of information about these concerns,
and their hopes for the upcoming United Nations Conference for the
Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. As in previous
Euro-Barometers, questions on political party preference were posed,
including which party respondents felt closest to, how they voted in
their country's last general election, and how they would vote if a
general election were held tomorrow. Additional information was
gathered on family income, number of people residing in the home, size
of locality, home ownership, region of residence, occupation of the
head of household, and the respondent's age, sex, occupation,
education, religion, religiosity, subjective social class standing,
socio-professional status, and left-right political self-placement.

Universe:
Persons aged 15 and over residing in the 12 member nations
of the European Community: Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece,
Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, and the
United Kingdom as well as in the nation of Norway.

Data Types:
survey data

Data Collection Notes:

(1) This collection also contains data from respondents
in Norway. These respondents answered many of the same questions posed
to those living in the 12 member nations of the European Community. (2)
Data processing for this collection was performed at the Zentralarchiv
fur Empirische Sozialforschung in Cologne, Germany.